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From: Nagle@cup.portal.com (John - Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Causing a compile time error (was variable size...)
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Date: 13 Dec 89 06:21:17 GMT
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     I suggest that the function "assert" be made known to
the compiler, and if it can be determined at compile time that
the argument is false, an compile-time error should be generated.